No news from SCOTUS on marriage equality cases

The U.S. Supreme Court still hasn’t announced whether it will consider lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act.

On Friday, justices held a conference to determine whether to take up Hollingsworth v. Perry, the case challenging Prop 8, and some combination of the four lawsuits challenging DOMA before the court. According to a court order, published by the court on the same day, the court decided at the conference to take up two cases, but they’re unrelated to marriage.